June 25, 2019. The Party of "Family Values" Gets a Kick in the Political Nuts

 

6/25/19: The party of “family values” gets a fresh kick in the political nuts when prosecutors reveal details in the case against GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter. 

Rep. Duncan Hunter - looking like five affairs might have been tiring.

 

Allegedly financing five extramarital affairs. 

If you’ve forgotten, Rep. Hunter was the second member of Congress to come out in support of Trump’s candidacy. Sadly, he and his wife Margaret were soon indicted for misuse of campaign funds. 

At the time, President Trump – and here the “party of law and order” gets whacked upside the head, too – complained because Rep. Hunter and a second GOP member of Congress, Chris Collins, likewise had been indicted. Rep. Collins, the first member of Congress to support Trump for president, got nailed on charges of insider trading. 

President Twitter Thumbs felt compelled to tweet: 

Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......

 

“Jeff,” as in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has since been fired and Collins is scheduled for his day in court in September. 

By now we know Hunter is in a jam. First, his wife has already plead guilty and agreed to testify against him. Second, prosecutors have revealed that Rep. Hunter was using campaign cash for more than just flying his wife and kids and the family bunny on vacations. 

He was allegedly financing five separate extramarital affairs. 

Five.

 

Even Fox News can’t do much to make this story sound better. They still try: 

The Monday filing alleges Hunter spent campaign money to fund trips, hotel rooms, bar tabs, Uber rides and meals during his meetings with several unidentified women. In one case, Hunter flew to Reno, Nevada in January 2010 to ostensibly to attend a convention for a nonprofit group. After stopping at the convention, Hunter and a female lobbyist traveled to a ski resort in Lake Tahoe [emphasis added].

 

He billed his campaign $1,008 for the hotel stay and room service and another $180 to fly back to Washington D.C.

 

In March 2010, he also took a “double date” road trip with the same lobbyist to Virginia Beach, according to federal prosecutors. He spent $905 in campaign funds to pay for a bar tab and shared hotel room for the weekend, the filing said.

 

A spokesman for Hunter did not immediately return a Fox News request for comment on the allegations.

 

In another example, Hunter allegedly charged his campaign $93 to take a congressional aide out for drinks and billed another $21 for an Uber ride back to his office. 

(Prosecutors say Hunter and the aide spent the night there.)

 

Still, Fox injects as much doubt as it can: 

Hunter has called the case against him a political ploy and has denied corruption allegations. He previously said his wife handled his campaign’s finances.

 

The filing did not say whether Hunter’s relationships with the women were sexual. Prosecutors did say the “sequence of romantic liaisons is so far removed from any legitimate campaign or congressional activity as to rebut any argument that Hunter believed these were proper uses of campaign funds.”

 

Overnight stays with various women – not sexual – sure. Trump fans might fall for that. 

We who do not care for the Trump administration and this sorry crowd, anxiously await the trial.